The move is being made as a result of growing demand for Python in heavy data-centric scientific computing and financial modeling applications, the company said. The packages are being offered partially in response to proposed rules about asset-backed securities from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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"Python's extensibility and interoperability with other programming languages and numerical libraries makes it an increasingly popular choice in both the financial and scientific computing communities," said Diane Mueller, director of enterprise product management at ActiveState, in a statement released by the company. "ActiveState offers the most robust Python distribution and service levels agreements for companies demanding efficiencies and high performance required in today's increasingly complex computing environments."